How NASCAR’s Ownership Charter System Works
The 2025 season marks a decade in which the NASCAR Cup Series has functionally operated under the ‘charter agreement,’ but it’s also the first year of the second document and first extension to an agreement first crafted in advance of the 2016 season.It’s also the first season that began withContinue Reading
Greg James to host 38th annual Autosport Awards
The 38th annual Autosport Awards will be hosted for the first time by award-winning broadcaster and lifelong motorsport fan Greg James.Best known as the host of BBC Radio 1’s Breakfast Show and co-host of The Fast and the Curious Formula 1 podcast, James brings a fan’s perspective alongside his trademark humourContinue Reading
McLaren explains F1 Las Vegas GP disqualifications and will investigate issue
McLaren has apologised to its drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri for its costly double disqualification at Formula 1’s Las Vegas Grand Prix, as it explained what went wrong.Norris and Piastri finished second and fifth respectively on the streets of Las Vegas, before both drivers were thrown out of theContinue Reading
FIA defends criticised F1 Las Vegas GP marshal intervention
Two races after Formula 1 race control drew criticism for a close call between two marshals and Liam Lawson at the Mexico Grand Prix, the timing of a marshal intervention during a race again became a contentious topic in Las Vegas.After a multi-car clash at the start of the VegasContinue Reading
James Allen: McLaren gifts F1 and Red Bull a season finale spectacle
In the old days, when different people ran F1, fans would be inclined to look at the dramatic double disqualification of the McLaren drivers from the Las Vegas Grand Prix with a knowing wink. Nothing like tightening up the field with two rounds to go to set up a thrillingContinue Reading
Horner in running to join Aston Martin with Cowell’s position under threat – reports
Christian Horner is understood to be a contender for the Aston Martin Formula 1 team principal role as incumbent Andy Cowell looks set to leave, according to reports.Horner was sacked as Red Bull boss in July after 20 years in the role, winning eight drivers’ titles and six constructors’ crownsContinue Reading
The plank wear rules McLaren broke in Las Vegas GP
In the aftermath of the Las Vegas Grand Prix, the usual post-race inspections revealed that both McLaren cars had fallen foul of Formula 1’s restrictions on plank wear.The cars of both Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri had demonstrated wear beyond the minimum thickness on the rearmost skid block, defined asContinue Reading
How McLaren’s Las Vegas GP disqualification blew open the title fight
Immediately after the Las Vegas GP, Lando Norris still had one hand on the 2025 Formula 1 world drivers’ championship despite losing out to Max Verstappen in Sin City.That all changed after both Norris and team-mate – and championship rival – Oscar Piastri were disqualified when their cars failed technicalContinue Reading
Norris and Piastri disqualified from F1 Las Vegas GP
McLaren has received a double disqualification from the Las Vegas Grand Prix because both of its Formula 1 cars failed to meet the minimum thickness requirement of the rear skid block.It means Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri have respectively lost their second and fourth-place finishes from Saturday night, having breachedContinue Reading
Norris and Piastri at risk of Las Vegas GP disqualification for excessive F1 car plank wear
McLaren has been summoned to the Formula 1 stewards because both of its cars are in an alleged breach of excessive plank wear rules after the Las Vegas Grand Prix. The MCL39s of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri have failed to meet the thickness requirement of the rear skid block afterContinue Reading